Improvement in marking plug-tobacco



E. C. VENABLE.

MARKING PLUG TOBACCO.

No. 188,991. Patented March 27,1877.

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NPETERS. PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, o C.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE EDWARD O. VENABLE, OF PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MARKING PLUG-TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188,991, dated March27, 1877; application filed February 19, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enw. G. VENABLE, of Petersburg, in the county ofDinwiddie, and in the State of Virginia, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Plug- Tobacco; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the use of a skeleton metallicframe of any suitable shape, which is provided with teeth or points forthe double purpose of holding a tag or label, and of securing both theframe and label to a plug of tobacco, as will be hereinafter moreparticularly described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and application.

In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figure1 represents a view of a plug of tobacco, with the frame and labelattached. Figs. 2 and 3 are views of the metallic'framc.

In the figures, A represents a plug of tobacco, and B the metallicframe. The frame,

in this instance, is struck up in annular form, with points or spursupon its periphery. The center of this frame is cut away, as seen, sothat the label can be exposed through it. When the label is placedagainst the frame two or more of the points or spurs 0 c are bent downover it to confine the two together. When the frame is then placed uponthe tobacco the points 0 c, Fig. 3, are forced into it, and thusconfined to the plug.

It is not necessary that this frame should be made round, but may bemade in any shape desired, so that it is a rim-frame with spurs upon itto confine the label to the plug, allowing the label to show through it.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A metallic rim-frame having spurs for in closing a label, and confiningsame to a plug of tobacco, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this6th day of February, 1877.

EDWARD G. VENABLE.

Witnesses:

FRANK GALT, WM. B. UPPERMAN.

